Psalm 147

Praise God Who Helps His People

147Praise the Lord!

It is good to sing praises to our God;

it is good and pleasant to praise him.

²The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem;

he brings back the captured Israelites.

³He heals the brokenhearted

and bandages their wounds.

⁴He counts the stars

and names each one.

⁵Our Lord is great and very powerful.

There is no limit to what he knows.

⁶The Lord defends the humble,

but he throws the wicked to the ground.

⁷Sing praises to the Lord;

praise our God with harps.

⁸He fills the sky with clouds

and sends rain to the earth

and makes grass grow on the hills.

⁹He gives food to cattle

and to the little birds that call.

¹⁰He is not impressed with the strength of a horse

or with human might.

¹¹The Lord is pleased with those who respect him,

with those who trust his love.

¹²Jerusalem, praise the Lord;

Jerusalem, praise your God.

¹³He makes your city gates strong

and blesses your children inside.

¹⁴He brings peace to your country

and fills you with the finest grain.

¹⁵He gives a command to the earth,

and it quickly obeys him.

¹⁶He spreads the snow like wool

and scatters the frost like ashes.

¹⁷He throws down hail like rocks.

No one can stand the cold he sends.

¹⁸Then he gives a command, and it melts.

He sends the breezes, and the waters flow.

¹⁹He gave his word to Jacob,

his laws and demands to Israel.

²⁰He didn’t do this for any other nation.

They don’t know his laws.

Praise the Lord!